Dive Against Debris Data Submission
Directors Bay, Curacao
30 March, 2023
- Team Leader
- Laura
- Number of Participants
- 2
- Total Debris Collected
- 9 kgs (estimated)
12.066573, -68.860455
Survey Information
- Location Name
- Directors Bay, Curacao
- Organization/Dive Centre
- Dive with Laura
- City
- Willemstad
- Country
- Netherlands Antilles
- Date
- 30 March, 2023
- Survey Duration
- 68 Minutes
- GPS Coordinates
- Latitude: 12.066573
Longitude: -68.860455
- Weather Conditions
-
Sunny, windy
- Survey Depth Range
- 4–30 meters
- Area Surveyed
- 434.93 m2
- Dominant Substrate
- sand
- Ecosystem
- coral reef
- Wave Conditions
- Smooth (wavelets) for waves 0.1 - 0.5 meter high
Survey Photos
Debris Items Collected
| plastic materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Bait Containers, Packaging | 3 |
| Beverage Bottles: Less Than 2 Litres (plastic) | 2 |
| Caps & Lids (plastic) | 1 |
| Containers: Fast Food, Lunch Boxes & Similar | 1 |
| Fishing: Line | 55 |
| Fishing: Lures, Rods/poles | 2 |
| Fishing: Nets & Pieces Of Nets | 5 |
| Food Wrappers (plastic) | 2 |
| Plastic Fragments | 25 |
| Rope (plastic/nylon) | 3 |
| metal materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Cans: Food/juice, Other (tin) | 1 |
| Caps & Lids (metal) | 1 |
| Wrappers (foil/metal) | 1 |
| Fishing: Sinkers, Lures, Hooks | 7 |
| rubber materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Rubber Fragments | 3 |
| paper materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Paper, Cardboard Fragments | 1 |
| mixed materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Clothing | 1 |
| other materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Ribbons | 5 |
Additional Information
Its a fishing spot for fishermen fishing with tossing a line. If the line is stuck on a rock, they will cut it and throw a new one. At 30 meters it was a sad spiderweb of fishinglines..
XXXS boxershorts
Fishing lines
Hooks & weights
Plastic food packaging
Comments and Feedback
Please change "Netherlands Antilles" to 'Curacao'. Its a famous dive destination to be, and hasn't been from the Netherlands since 2010. Its a independent country within the Dutch kingdom.
